Hillary: Like her or Not. I am kind of both.

Hillary Clinton. My feelings towards that woman have changed so much over the last 2 years. 2 years ago, when the election cycle was starting to take off, my number one fear was that Hillary Clinton would be taking the White House as the first female President of the United States. It was ridiculous. My fear that Hillary would win made me think a Rudy Guliani nomination would be okay (the man's record left a little something to be desired for conservatives), just because I thought he could win New York from Billary in a general election. I mean, Hillary. This was a dislike Hillary stage.

Well, then Barrack Obama jumped onto the national scene, with his radical associations and naive (or else something more sinister) view of foreign policy/relations, and Hillary became my hero. I was literally following every single primary of the Democratic party, hoping and praying that Hillary would win the Democratic nod, solely because she was much more reasonable than Obama on so many things. Who would have thought that I would ever want Hillary to win anything? This was a "like" Hillary stage.

Well, we all know how it turned out. Obama won both the primary elections and the general election. One of my biggest fears was that Obama would be appointing someone as ridiculous as himself to Secretary of State, or worse, someone like Jeremiah Wright. So, imagine my surprise when he appointed Hillary. As far as his cabinet appointments go, Hillary was probably my favorite. She has a lot of respect in the foreign community, and is not an uber-radical. That said, she has a major problem at the moment: Bill Clinton and their William J. Clinton Foundation. A lot of foreign entities have given large sums of money to this foundation, creating a strong conflict of interest. The biggest problem lies in the fact that several of the major donors are Arab, and one of the major things Hillary will have to deal with as Secretary of State is Arab-Israeli relations.

I would have no problem with this situation, if the Foundation was shut down during her tenure, or all financial records were put out in the open. This could at least keep her and Bill honest, and give her a justifiable defense if problems/accusations arise and are attributed to dealings with the foundation. But no. All that is required is that new donors will be examined and donations from previous donors will be examined IF the amount donated is significantly different than the previous donation.

I foresee potentially dark times ahead.